Trying to upload audio file
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I am attempting to get the audio player to show for the m4a file I have just uploaded. I have an upgraded account. I have been using this post as a how-to, but don’t know what I’m doing wrong.
Let me tell you my exact steps:
1) I uploaded the m4a.
2) I uploaded a photo.
3) I hit the link button.
4) I paste in what I believe to be the location of the audio file, with the brackets, and the word “audio” in there: “[audio http://smalltowns.wordpress.com/files/2008/05/smallwandercom-seminar-january-28-2008-2.m4a%5D“
Thanks for your help.
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try pasting the link into an empty browser window, and see if it plays or at least downloads, and then you will be wiser as to whether it is a local problem on your computer.
I am on a smartphone so cannot check it. -
When I paste: http://smalltowns.wordpress.com/files/2008/05/smallwandercom-seminar-january-28-2008-2.m4a
into the browser window, my browser asks me if I want to download the file.
When I paste with the brackets and the word “audio” in the brackets:
[audio http://smalltowns.wordpress.com/files/2008/05/smallwandercom-seminar-january-28-2008-2.m4a%5D
I get the following error from Google:
Your search – [audio http://smalltowns.wordpress.com/files/2008/05/smallwandercom-seminar-january-28-2008-2.m4a%5D – did not match any documents.
I get a similar error when I leave the brackets off.
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3) I hit the link button.
Not sure why you’re using the link button. You should be able to type the code into the write window.
[audio http://smalltowns.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/smallwandercom-seminar-january-28-2008-2.m4a] -
OH. OK. I did that. Thanks.
The player is showing fine now, but it’s buffering forever. The forum threads suggested checking the file name, but I believe mine is correct. Is it a size issue?
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According to the ,a href=”http://faq.wordpress.com/2006/12/24/how-do-i-get-music-on-my-blog/”>FAQ, the file should be encoded at 44.1kHz. Check to make sure you have that. Also, you may want to look through the forum postings on buffering.
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Crap. I wish we had a preview option here in the forms. Here’s what the above post should have said:
According to the FAQ,/a>, the file should be encoded at 44.1kHz. Check to make sure you have that. Also, you may want to look through the forum postings on buffering. -
Last time I try this:
According to the FAQ, the file should be encoded at 44.1kHz. Check to make sure you have that. Also, you may want to look through the forum postings on buffering. -
Some threads say they were having a problem with Firefox. I am on a Mac, and tried it on Safari.
It’s at 44.1kHz.
My m4a file is on a WordPress server, and my podcast feed (XML) file is on GoDaddy, the hosting provider for my main site. I successfully submitted a podcast to Itunes with this setup–it extracted the m4a file off WordPress fine and downloaded it to my Itunes player. Does that provide any clues?
I guess I could experiment with putting the file and/or the podcast feed somewhere else, such as on Box.net, or the mac server, but still trying to make this work with WP.
I’m a novice here, please bear with…
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When you look at the URL for the m4a file IN the audio player bracket code, does it appear to be a link? If so, it MUST be broken or it will buffer forever. That is the most common problem with the audio player; just click on the URL and then the broken link button.
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I just tried the link on my blog and got the endless buffering. Time to contact support on this, I think.
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I’m a Mac user, too, and I use both Firefox and Safari. I don’t see any problem with either of them or your link: I put the URL in both browsers and succesfully downloaded your m4a with both. You failed to mention the perhaps-not-so-insignificant detail that the file is 52 minutes long and heavily compressed. I tried uploading it at Fileden, and after more than 5 minutes it had only gone as far as 1 of your 21 MBs. So maybe it’s no wonder that the WP audio player can’t cope with it, either. I would suggest you try breaking it down into short segments.
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FYI, support responded back with this:
“After checking into this we’ve discovered the our audio player only support mp3 files. We are updating our documentation to reflect this.”
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I now have a problem posting images. In case this is any way related to my previous problem, I thought I’d leave it in this thread.
The files seem to upload fine. They are jpegs. I can see them in the media library. I select the one I want, then insert into post. One of them I just tried is only 268 KB. I then get a blank dialog box. I close it, and find that the image has not been posted into the post.
Any thoughts are welcomed.
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There are so many threads on image uploading problems that I am not going to even try to answer this. Please take a look at them.
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“Could not process video. Error code: 5. Please try uploading it later or contact support.”
This is the error I get. Many, many times.
Has anyone else experienced this?
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